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Gosh, this is an old thread ..... but then I am pretty old as well! I worked at Wooding in Hamburg in the early 1970s. The first Wooding Escort, driven by Christian Schmarje, was already at Wooding when I arrived. It was a 1700cc BD engined car with a ZF gearbox. We built two more cars during the winter and the body shells were prepared by Morris Gomm (I know this because I collected them in the Wooding transporter). The engines were 1800cc BD series utilising Cosworth parts. The engines were built by us at Wooding and run-in and tested by me on our dyno. The rear axles were prepared by Ford Cologne and were very light as they utilised a lot of aluminium. The brackets for the four link rear suspension were clamped on (like SU throttle arms) not welded as the welds (aluminium) used to break. There were Teflon leaf springs which did nothing but complied with the regs. The actual working rear springs were torsion bars which were modified Morris Marina front torsion bars. There was also a Watt's linkage to locate the rear axle left to right. One of the cars was for Jorg Obermoser. Obermoser owned a factory which made electric motors with attached gearboxes. We stayed at Obermoser's place for a few nights whilst we completed his car in his workshops. He had a house in the factory grounds complete with two lanes of ABC bowling alley!
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